itri innovation polymer compounding & fire testing case study
DESCRIPTION
This case study highlights how ITRI Innovation helped a polymer compounding company to improve their formulation and carry out fire testing to validate the required performance characteristics.TRANSCRIPT
POLYMER COMPOUNDING & FIRE TESTING…
The Client
A manufacturer of fillers and additives for polymers
The challenge
To develop a new formulation that achieves the performance characteristics required by their clients
The problem
Timescales. Their previous process involved sending raw materials to a compounder to produce a batch of pellets, which were then sent to an injection moulding company for manufacture of test samples. These then underwent the necessary testing.
The Solution
Advice on formulations, compounding, injection moulding and testing (fire, tensile and impact), & repeated…
Advice on formulations Compounding of additives, filler and polymer to create pellets
Injection moulding to produce samples for fire and mechanical property testing
Cone calorimetry & UL-94 Fire Testing & Tensile and Impact Testing
The Outcome
The client managed to achieve their target levels of product performance and therefore launch the product, in a much shorter timescale than had previously been possible.